Writing from Camp Dale, Carolina City, N. C., Pvt. Webber, Co. G, 23rd Mass. Inf., USA, wrote his cousin to report that he was in good health and the weather had been nice. Webber was stationed at Bogue Island five miles from Fort Macon, and gave...

We have here the advantages of adopting the virtues of our white brothers, who surround us. Your Excellency is not unacquainted with the progress which we have made in agriculture and civilized life. The benign influence of religion has opened the...

This very fine Civil War map of East Tennessee was prepared by Union Army engineer and cartographer Orlando M. Poe. State geologist James M. Stafford drew on topographica details. This map shows forts, towns, post offices, topography, roads,...

This tintype of Samuel Cantrell of Warren County, Tennessee was created several years after the Civil War. Cantrell enlisted as a private in Co. C, 23rd Tenn. Inf., CSA. He was promoted to corporal in September 1863 and served the entire war....

This nine-page letter written from Arthur H. Harris in Monroe, Louisiana, to his brother George Carroll Harris in Nashville is a conscious political treatise. The author is advocating and justifiying the secession of Louisiana at the upcoming...

This commission certificate was issued to Benjamin Haught by the Virginia governor. Haught was assigned as Captain of the volunteer company attached to the 123rd Regiment of the 23rd Brigade and the 3rd Division of Virginia Militia. Item is a part...

Section 21st No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of
appropriations made by law.
Section 22nd No person who heretofore hath been, or hereafter may be a Collector or holder of public moneys shall have a Seat in either House...

Ribbon and pin marking the 3rd annual reunion of the 23rd Maine Vol. Inf. Regt. A medallion is attached to the bottom of the blue silk ribbon. The medallion includes a scene from a Union encampment on one side and the Maine state seal on the other...

Pvt. Samuel Cantrell , Co. C, 23rd Tenn. Inf., CSA is pictured holding two weapons, a Colt Navy revolver and first or second model Smith & Wesson. He enlisted in July 1861, was promoted to corporal in September 1863, and served until the end of the...

Post-war cabinet card of Lt. Rufus B. Parkes, Co. E, 9th KY, Inf. Regt., CSA. Parkes was from Lincoln County (Tenn.), now Moore County (Tenn.). Parkes lost his diary at Shiloh and it was returned to his family in 1925. Company E was apparently...

Painted wooden crutch that belonged to James A. Shelton. Shelton was born in Jackson County, Alabama, in 1842 to Andrew J. and PaBany Williamson Shelton. He enlisted at Iuka, Mississippi, on August 24, 1861, and served in Co. A., 23rd Mississippi,...